Accessing EMSL Remotely

A variety of EMSL capabilities can be accessed remotely, allowing
researchers to use EMSL resources and collaborate with their EMSL
colleagues from around the globe.

EMSL's Computing and Information Sciences provides general
collaboration capabilities to EMSL users and collaborators ranging from
distributed file systems to videoconferencing. In addition, several
projects within the EMSL have created virtual facilities that provide
additional capability-specific support:

NMR Virtual Facility

The Virtual NMR Facility
combines secure remote operation of the EMSL's NMR spectrometers with
real-time videoconferencing, real time computer display sharing, a Web
based Electronic Notebook, and other capabilities. Users of the Virtual
Facility have secure direct acquisition control of the EMSL
spectrometers and can consult with EMSL staff for training, during
setup to optimize the experiment, or at any time during analysis or
other activities.

EMSL Online Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer

The C&IS Instrument
Development Laboratory's EMSL On-Line (EOL) project is developing
software architectures for the next generation of scientific
instruments -systems where computer control does not stop at the walls
of the laboratory. This will help provide EMSL scientists and their
collaborators with secure high performance remote access to the
laboratory's experimental instruments.

The first instrument to be redesigned for Internet use is an Ion
Trap Mass Spectrometer. Coupled with videoconferencing, shared browser
control for presentations and a live laboratory camera, this
spectrometer is used frequently for both research and education
activities via the Internet.

The MSCF supports a wide range of activities in environmental
molecular research, from benchmark calculations on small molecules to
reliable calculations on large molecules and solids to simulations of
large biomolecules, as well as reactive chemical transport modeling.
The MSCF provides an integrated production computing environment, with
links to external facilities within the Department of Energy,
collaborating universities, and industry.